how well do you know the elements?

[dead0man]

name the elements

after learning the Presidents and the countries, I was looking for a new thing and thought it would be the elements but gawd damn (I said gawd damn) that sh**t is hard.  I've hit 59 once, but I'm usually in the mid 50s. I forgot gold the last time I took it, how the hell does one forget gold?  There are others that I remember every time that most people have never even heard of (I won't say what they are yet).  It wouldn't be impossible to learn them all, but it would require a lot of work and that's not going to happen.

[Antonio the Sixth]

55

[Benjamin Frank 2.0]

I have a friend who's into the elements even though he hasn't formally studied the sciences. He's more of an arty type so he mostly likes the shape of the periodic table. However, he has learned some things by learning about the periodic table.

It's interesting how many different ways there are to learn about the elements. He's mostly learned about the types of groupings (the heavy metals...), valence levels and how that effects the forming of compounds and more trivial things like which is the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature.

There are many other things that can be realized from using the periodic table such as the elemental masses and stuff like that. The periodic table was created before all elements were discovered, and scientists accurately predicted what the missing elements would be like.

If you want to learn more about the elements, I would definitely suggest learning through periodic table groupings, both across and down. There is actually more than one way that elements can be grouped so there is more than one periodic table, but I gather the others are much less commonly used.

Since I'm an economist, I asked him why gold is considered valuable, and I was actually surprised that he didn't answer that it's (almost entirely) non reactive (noble) which is why it doesn't rust/lose its luster (though I personally find gold garish and not attractive.)  

[Meclazine for Israel]

As a geologist, I have to know the economic ones, and in particular, the pathfinder elements that increase in fluids surrounding resources containing metals like Au, Pt, Pd, Cu and Ni.

These pathfinders for Au and Cu are typically Ag, As, Se, Bi, Mo, Sb, Hg, Pb, S.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.952031/full

Lithium is the one element driving the Western Australian economy into overdrive at the moment. One of the previous companies I did some contracts for earned $800M in the last quarter from digging up the white mineral in the form of spodumene.

Apparently, electric vehicles are a big thing.

[politicallefty]

I've always been pretty good at this. In the time allotted, I managed to get 95. The Lanthanides have always been my weakness.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Got 83 on the quiz.  In school I learned the whole table (although there were only 103 at that time).

[Mr. Smith]

33

The first 9 are easy, and the ones invented in The Lab are very easy too. Gets trickier after that.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

I hit 50 and gave up. Probably could’ve come up with more. Missed a few semi-obvious ones (#19 for example)

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I forgot gold the last time I took it, how the hell does one forget gold?

To rip a joke from Stephen Colbert (back when he was funny), how do you forget gold? It's literally shouting at you from the table: "A, U!"

I attempted it a few times, looked at the table after each attempt, and my high score is 60.

[HillGoose]

dang only one i knew was seaborgium

[GeorgiaModerate]

Got 83 on the quiz.  In school I learned the whole table (although there were only 103 at that time).

Tried again and got 103, although not the original 103 I knew.  Missed Niobium, Indium, Tellurium, a couple of lanthanides, and a bunch of the transuranic elements.

[NYDem]

Don't know how i missed chromium and arsenic. Also disappointed that I missed Seaborgium.

[John Dule]

Made it to 80. I can do better if I have the letters.

[GeneralMacArthur]

16.

I was terrible at chemistry and still find it very unappealing as a subject.